Telephone Timeline Outline

The True Inventor of the Telephone?
(October 27, 1861)

Bell Invents and Patents the Telephone
(March 10, 1876)

The First Regular Telephone Line
(1877)

The First Telephone Switchboard
(1877)

Emile Berliner Invents the Microphone
(March 4, 1877)

Formation of the Bell Telephone Company, then the American Bell Telephone Company
(July 9, 1877 – March 1880)

David Hughes Invents the Loose-Contact Carbon Microphone
(1878)

The First Regular Telephone Exchange is Established in New Haven, Connecticut
(January 1878)

The First Telephone Directory is Published in New Haven, Connecticut
(November 1878)

The First Wireless Telephone Communication
(April 1, 1880)

AT&T is Founded
(March 3, 1885 – 1892)

About 240,000 Telephones Are in Use in the U.S.A.
(1895)

George Owen Squier Invents Telephone Carrier Multiplexing
(1910)

The First Transcontinental Telephone Call
(January 25, 1915)

The Creation of Bell Labs
(1925)

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover Participates in the First American Demonstration of Television
(April 7, 1927)

The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable is Operational
(1955 – September 25, 1956)

Technical Basis for the Development of Phreaking
(November 1960)

"Dial F for Frankenstein"
(1961)

The First Digitally Multiplexed Transmission of Voice Signals
(1962)

The First Satellite to Relay Signals from Earth to Satellite and Back
(June 10, 1962)

The First Geosynchronous Communications Satellite is Launched
(July 26, 1963)

Touch-Tone Dialing is Introduced
(November 1963)

First Use of the Term "Hacker" in the Context of Computing
(November 20, 1963)

The First Commercial Communications Satellite to be Placed in Geosynchronous Orbit
(April 6, 1965)

The Viterbi Algorithm
(1967)

Invention of the "Smart Card"
(1968 – 1984)

Phreaker Underground Telephone System Culture
(1971)

An Antitrust Suit to Break up AT&T
(November 20, 1974)

Prototype Cellular Telephone System
(1977)

The Minitel
(1978 – June 30, 2012)

Making Small Portable Digital Telephones Possible
(1979)

The Basis for Cellular Telephone Technology
(May 1, 1979)

Digital Cellular Telephone Technology is Developed
(1980)

The First Cellular Telephone Service in the United Sates
(December 16, 1982)

The First Commercial Analog Cellular Telephone Service
(October 13, 1983 – 1984)

2600: The Hacker Quarterly
(1984)

Breakup of AT&T
(January 1, 1984)

GSM is Developed
(1987)

Junk Faxes are Outlawed
(1991)

The First GSM Cellular Phone Call
(March 27, 1991)

2G Cellular Telecom
(July 1, 1991)

Neil Papworth Sends the First SMS Text Message
(December 3, 1992)

The First Tablet Computer with Wireless Connectivity
(April 1993 – July 1994)

The First Access to the Mobile Web
(1996)

WAP
(June 1997)

The First Full Internet Service on Cell Phones
(1999)

The First 3G Cellular Network
(October 1, 2001)

The First Cell Phone Novel
(2003)

Skype is Founded
(August 2003)

"From Gutenberg to the Internet"
(2005)

Twitter: "What Are You Doing?"
(October 2006)

Apple Introduces the iPhone
(June 29, 2007)

Drama in the Context of a Telephone Exchange (1928)
(2008)

The First Android Phone is Introduced
(September 23, 2008)

2.5 Trillion Text Messages
(December 26, 2008)

The First Magazine Cover Created as iPhone Art
(June 1, 2009)

More than 2 Billion Apps Downloaded in 15 Months
(July – November 2009)

David Hockney's iPhone Art
(October 22, 2009)

3 Billion iPhone and iPod Apps Were Downloaded in less than 18 Months
(January 5, 2010)

After the Earthquake in Haiti, Donating by SMS Text
(January 13, 2010)

World Texting Competition is Won by Koreans
(January 14, 2010)

Cell Phones Are Now Used More for Data than Speech
(May 13, 2010)

Data on Mobile Networks is Doubling Each Year
(August 1, 2010)

3G Wireless Telephony in Mt. Everest Region of Nepal
(October 29, 2010)

Twitter Has 175 Million Users
(October 30, 2010)

3D Maps for Android Mobil Devices
(December 16, 2010)

British Library App
(January 2011)

The Smartphone Becomes the CPU of the Laptop
(January 2011)

Voice-Activated Translation on Cell Phones
(January 12, 2011)

More than Ten Billion Apps are Downloaded from the Apple App Store
(January 22, 2011)

Confession: A Roman Catholic iPhone App
(February 2011)

Microsoft Acquires Skype for $8.5 Billion
(May 2011)

200 Million Tweets Per Day: 100 Fold Increase Since 2009
(June 30, 2011)

Google Agrees to Acquire Smart-Phone Maker Motorola Mobility
(August 15, 2011)

The Swedish Twitter University Begins
(November 14, 2011)

More than 10 Billion Android Apps Downloaded
(December 6, 2011)

Nearly 50% of U.S. Mobile Subscribers Own Smartphones
(March 29, 2012)

After Cell Phones With Cameras, Android Cameras- Without Cellphones- are Introduced
(December 19, 2012)

Making the iPhone 5 Look and Feel Like a Traditional Camera: the gizmon iCa case
(February 2013)

Smartphone Interactive Reading Device Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages
(March 4, 2013)